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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Four, College—The Ghost of False Hope.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When do Mel and Lyla begin dating?
(a) 1958.
(b) 1960.
(c) 1963.
(d) 1952.

2. What does the person whom Mel meets at the end of his senior year in high school do when he and Mel are walking to Mel's home one day?
(a) Tells Mel he is in love with him.
(b) Lectures him on the sinfulness of homosexuality.
(c) Lectures him on the dangers of homosexuality.
(d) Holds Mel's hand and kisses him.

3. When do Mel and Lyla marry?
(a) 1966.
(b) Never.
(c) 1962.
(d) 1968.

4. What position does Lyla hold in high school?
(a) Director of social affairs.
(b) Junior class treasurer.
(c) None.
(d) Senior class president.

5. What does Mel say his murdered friend preferred to risk rather than share his feelings?
(a) A failed marriage to a woman.
(b) His family's rejection.
(c) Anonymous sex.
(d) The depression of celibacy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ted do after he becomes enraged at Mel?

2. For what does Martin Luther King criticize Christian churches?

3. What is one of Mel's first homosexual memories?

4. What does Ted confess to Mel one night?

5. What is Martin Luther King arguing at the time of Lyla and Mel's enrollment in college?

(see the answer key)

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